This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
Multimedia Information Retrieval (IR) techniques and associated systems are now numerous and justify the development of strategies and actions to objectively evaluate their capabi...
In this paper, we propose a novel system, Video Booklet, which enables efficient and nature video browsing and searching. In the system, a set of selected thumbnails excerpted fro...
Information gathering from multimedia retrieval systems is aided by effective visualization, but the degree to which visualization is effective depends in part on the way the cont...
This article argues for the growing importance of quality metadata and the equation of that quality with precision and semantic grounding. Such semantic grounding requires metadat...